To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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